Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballot which reaches every alumnus are those who get the most votes. If the malcontents are dissatisfied, let more of them take the trouble to vote. Even with the complete extension of our suffrage only 30 per cent of those qualified sent in their ballots last year. This proportion ought to be doubled. If it is not, it must be because the mass of the Alumni realize that taking one year with another the choice of those voting has generally been excellent...
...that Harvard has fallen heir to the slot machines in New York subways, the University ought tothem over to the Business School to administer. This will give the boys laboratory practice in the mismanagement of big affairs Incipient captains of industry who can make two sticks of gum grow where one grew before will be awarded their degrees "summa cum Wrigley." Then, too, the following little poem sung to any old tune that fits, can serve as the HBS national anthem...
...Just half of the full professor- of endowment. In view of its past achievements, the work it is now doing, the importance of its work for every-day needs of the country, and the possibilities it has for some of the most pressing problems of the time, the school ought to be able to make a powerful appeal for endowment commensurate with what has been provided for other educational institutions...
...requirements for academic promotion ought to be based not on erudition alone, but on personality and ability to teach...
...which there is apparently a real need and to which there can be no valid objection. Professor East's recommendation states clearly, however, that "it must not be thought that the carrying out" of such suggestions "will make Harvard the place for graduate study in agriculture that it ought to be." His further recommendation that $12,000,000 be expended to make Harvard such a place does seem to carry his views to the point of absurdity...